A unit of pitch; a simple l-kHz tone, 40 dB above a listener's threshold, produces a pitch of 1,000 mels. The pitch of any sound that is judged by the listener to be n times that of a 1-mel tone is denoted as n mels.
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MEL --
A unit of pitch; a simple l-kHz tone, 40 dB above a listener's threshold, produces a pitch of 1,000 mels. The pitch of any sound that is judged by the listener to be n times that of a 1-mel tone is denoted as n mels.
